Statistical evidence of police racial profiling is ok

The MA Supreme Court overturned the appeallate court's exclusion of statistical evidence based on the stops made. The Supreme Judicial Court said that defendants can compare the racial composition of people stopped on a certain stretch of road with the racial composition of everyone who uses the road. (Boston Herald)

From boston.com:

Worcester District Attorney Joseph Early Jr. said the court has provided safeguards for prosecutors and defense attorneys by laying out a clear standard for showing discriminatory treatment through statistical information.

"It says that you've got to look on the highway. If a highway is passing through Grafton, Auburn, Millbury, you don't go to the towns, you find out what the racial composition of the people actually using the road is," Early

Response to UCLA Taser and racial profiling allegations

Are the allegations of racial profiling against the UCLA university police unique to UCLA? Not according to some. To some, the data is suggestive of a larger and bigger problem.

The table below shows the relative search rates for African-Americans and Latinos at some Texas universities in 2004. It shows the times more likely an African-American (B) or Latino (L) is to be searched by the universities police than a White person. For instance, B: 1.5 means that an African-American is 1.5 times more likely than a White person to be searched. >3 means the search rate was more than 3 times more likely.

University

Texas A&M University -- Commerce, University Police Department B: 1.5 L: >3
Texas A&M University at Galveston Police Department B: >3 L: >3
University of Houston Police Department B:2.9 L:>3
University of Texas of the Permian Basin Police Department B: 2.2 L:>3
Eastfield College Police Department B: >3 L:>3
Brookhaven College Police Department B: 2.7 L:>3

Source: Police department racial profiling reports and the Texas campaign to end police racial profiling